Song of the Week - WEEK 163 Voting/WEEK 164 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 163 Voting is closed.
Week 164 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [30] Musicdisk - Starshine
2). [15] E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
3). [14] DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
4). [9] Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
5). [8] God Tracks! - Battery Size D
6). [5/3] Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars (PC Game Rip) - City of the Knight
7). [5/2.5] Dead Space Original Video Game Soundtrack - The Leviathan
8). [4] Master Takahashi's Super Adventure Island - Ice Groove

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Dead Space Original Video Game Soundtrack - The Leviathan
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: God Tracks! - Battery Size D
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars (PC Game Rip) - City of the Knight
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Master Takahashi's Super Adventure Island - Ice Groove
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Musicdisk - Starshine

Notes:
Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone.

Week 164 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix) links to Dead Space Original Video Game Soundtrack - The Leviathan, however, I managed to find it elsewhere.

3 points - God Tracks! - Battery Size D
2 points - Musicdisk - Starshine
1 point - Master Takahashi's Super Adventure Island - Ice Groove

So it does. I've corrected the problem. All links correspond to the proper tracks now.

Thanks, Crash.

Also!

• Artist: Noriyuki Kamikura
• Composer: Hisayoshi Ogura
• Album Title: Darius Remix
• Track Title: WAR OH! (Boss Scene 1)
• Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
• Track Number: 10
• Catalog Number: SRIN-1037
• Year: 2007
• Source: SRIN-1037: Darius Remix - VGMdb

I've wanted to nominate this one for so long. It's an unusual piece but I absolutely love it.

Album: Bless Arrange Album "Flavory"
Title: BEST FEELING! -spinash mix-
Composer: Kazuhiro Yamada
Track Number: 06
Catalog Number: BS2000-01F
Source: VGMdb

Finally settled on a nomination.

Artist: Toshikazu Tanaka
Album/Game Title: Metal Slug Complete Sound Box (Disc 8 - Metal Slug 3D)
Track Title: Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flier-)
Disc Number: 8
Track Number: 22
Source(s): #gamemp3s

Will upload to the FTP when I figure out how.

EDIT: K, uploaded.

More of a meh week. A lot of glut near the middle.

(3 points) Musicdisk - Starshine
(2 points) DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
(1 point) E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack

Curse you, Crash! You foiled my dastardly plot to double my nom's point count :D

Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix- An interesting collection of electronic effects and variations. The various styles and sudden breaks work well enough, but the track's kind of disjointed and hard to follow. Good, but less than the sum of its parts.

Dead Space Original Video Game Soundtrack - The Leviathan Probably not for everyone, but still a masterful piece of pounding sci-fi terror. Laden with nods to classics like "Aliens" and percussive ruckus, it's the sort of thing that demands to be listened to on a good stereo with the volume way up.

DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix) Bouncy synth that's fun and listenable throughout. Not the most original, maybe, but still a good listen.

E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack Pretty run of the mill shmup stylings which sound a lot more like a stage than a boss.

God Tracks! - Battery Size D The supporting synths and guitars are pretty nice, but the heavily distorted vocorder is annoying and grating.

Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars (PC Game Rip) - City of the Knight Has that tinniness that a lot of older PC soundtracks suffer from, which is too bad--the vocals are quite good, and they feel a bit let down by the synth quality.

Master Takahashi's Super Adventure Island - Ice Groove Straight-up groove that doesn't do a whole lot of anything for a long time.

Musicdisk - Starshine Took a bit too long to really get going, but unloads some potent synth stylings once it got there. I wish it'd been more to the point, but it's beyond reproach once things get moving.

The Point Spread
The Leviathan - 3 pts.
Relation Again - 1 pt.
City of the Knight - 1 pt.
Starshine - 1 pt.

I forgot to download last week's tracks. Does anyone have them available?

2 points - E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
2 points - Master Takahashi's Super Adventure Island - Ice Groove
2 points - Musicdisk - Starshine

Yup. Placers can be taken from the main site, of course.

Nomination.

Artist: SoundTEMP
Album/Game Title: Flyff (game rip)
Track Title: Theme 6 - Flying
Disc Number: 1
Track Number: 6

3 points: God Tracks! - Battery Size D
2 points: Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
1 point: E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
Just missed: Starshine

3 Points: Musicdisk - Starshine
2 Points: Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
1 Point: DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)

Pretty mediocre week.

(2 points) DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
(2 points) E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
(2 points) Musicdisk - Starshine

(3 points) Musicdisk - Starshine
(2 points) Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars (PC Game Rip) - City of the Knight
(1 point) DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)

Time for some more Alex B.

Album: Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Artist: Alexander Brandon
Track Title: Streetwize
Track #: N/A
Source: Game rip

So many songs from JJ2 that could be nominated; it's really a fantastic soundtrack. This is one of my favorites.

EDIT: Changed from Colonius to Streetwize.

3 points: REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
2 points: Boss Attack
1 point: Starshine
Just Missed: Ice Groove

oh my god it's the boss theme from EDF

The best part without a doubt is the bass solo, I mean, do bass solos even exist in VGM before 1991?

Starshine is a classic, and while I prefer the original, most of my complaints are just me being really picky. It's a great arrangement.

Not too fond of the rest of the week, I'm afraid.

3 points: Musicdisk - Starshine
1 point: DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
1 point: E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
1 point: God Tracks! - Battery Size D

NOMINATION
Artist: Hatarou Horiuchi
Composer: Hisayoshi Ogura
Album Title: Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~
Track Title: PROTMIND ~THEME~
Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
Track Number: 2
Catalog Number: ZTTL-0035
Year: 1999
Source: ZTTL-0035: Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - VGMdb

3 points: E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
2 points: Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
1 point: Musicdisk - Starshine

Starshine and the Arkanoid track are both badass, I feel really bad for not having heard either of these albums yet.

I'd like to nominate "Forest Interlude" from the Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack, thing is that there is (according to VGMdb) an OST which has this track listed as track number 10 with 3:11 in length, the version that i have is 4:33, so i looked for the OST version but only found one with 3:07, so does anyone have a suggestion where to get it?
For now i will upload the 4:33 version...

Artist: David Wise
Album: Donkey Kong Country 2 ~ Diddy's Kong Quest Original Soundtrack
Track Title: Forest Interlude
Disc Number: 1/1
Track Number: 10
Catalog Number: 7250-Winter95
Year: 1995
Source: VGMdb

You don't have to use the OST version if you don't want to. People nominate ripped versions of songs all the time even if there are CD's. I do it when I want a looped version or a song that was combined into a suite on album, for example.

All right, then i'll just stick with the file that is up already. Information i gave is for the OST version but that only changes a few things and the file itself is tagged differently at the time anyway; at any rate, let's see if it places first...

How did I forget voting? Almost.

(2 points) Musicdisk - Starshine
(2 points) DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
(2 points) Dead Space Original Video Game Soundtrack - The Leviathan

Quick votes:

(2 points) Musicdisk - Starshine

(2 points) Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars (PC Game Rip) - City of the Knight

(2 points) DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)

Special mentions to Arkanoid and Dead Space.

I grabbed a copy of the track from the album you linked and it's 3:11. For SotW, I generally prefer to use official CD versions over rips, unless the rip offers something the OST doesn't, like multiple loops. In this case, the CD doesn't loop the track, while the ripped 4:33 version you uploaded does, so I could definitely use that.

However, SNES Donkey Kong Country 2, does anyone else have a problem with that? DKR I was okay with, but DKC2 sounds way too not obscure to me.

Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
I don't really like the vocals. It has some interesting melodic parts in the second half.

Dead Space Original Video Game Soundtrack - The Leviathan
I guess this one works well in the game, but I don't see myself listening to it stand-alone.

DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
This one has a very nice melody, although it's not exceptional in any way. Just a nice piece of music.

E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
Melody is kinda catchy. I like the fast pace, too.

God Tracks! - Battery Size D
Wow, if it weren't for the parts with the weird robot voice, this one would be really awesome. It definitely has its moments with great melody and nice instrumentation, but the robot parts really turn me off.

Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars (PC Game Rip) - City of the Knight
I don't usually get much out of orchestrations that have neither rhythm nor action, sorry.

Master Takahashi's Super Adventure Island - Ice Groove
Good rhythm, although the melody can't keep up, so it gets repetitive pretty quickly.

Musicdisk - Starshine
This one is pretty good. The melody is nice, and it varies just enough to stay fresh.

2 Points: Musicdisk - Starshine
2 Points: DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
1 Point: E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
1 Point: God Tracks! - Battery Size D

Yeah, no way DKC2 is eligible. Sorry, Stalky.

Last minute nomination:

Artist: Doo
Album/Game Title: Trackmania United Forever (Game Rip)
Track Title: Menus
Year: The game was released 2008, track could be older though, I coulnd't find a release date on it

Uploaded it to the FTP.

Voting is closed and nominations are restricted!

1). [30] Musicdisk - Starshine
2). [15] E.D.F. - Earth Defence Force (Game Rip) - Boss Attack
3). [14] DJMAX PORTABLE Legacy - Relation Again (ESTi's Remix)
4). [9] Arkanoid DS Audio Planet - REVENGE OF ARKANOID -Complete Mix-
5). [8] God Tracks! - Battery Size D
6). [5/3] Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars (PC Game Rip) - City of the Knight
7). [5/2.5] Dead Space Original Video Game Soundtrack - The Leviathan
8). [4] Master Takahashi's Super Adventure Island - Ice Groove

Well that was, ah, decisive.

Too bad that you guys measure the obscurity of the tracks, to most other people it sure would be obscure enough but then again, to most people all video game music would be obscure, so it's fine i guess.

So what about a track from "TimeSplitters: Future Perfect"?

Stalky, at least on GFF, the DKC2 soundtrack is very well known, thanks to several hit tunes from the game among forum users here, notably Stickerbush Symphony/Bramble Blast and Snakey Chantey.

I believe one of the objectives of Song of the Week is to introduce obscure game music to others.

The thing with popular video game soundtracks is that inadvertantly, many on the forums will check them out due in part to hype. But for the obscure soundtracks, they may remain undiscovered by the majority on the forums.

So Song of the Week is that platform to showcase these otherwise lesser known video game tunes.

Of course, there's a certain amount of flexibility when it comes to what is considered obscure, in which case a discussion/debate usually helps determine a nominated song's eligibility if it's a borderline case.

For what it's worth, I don't think DKC2 should be eligible, and not because I was a SNES whore when I was a kid.

I have a nominated a track from TS:FP in the past, so I don't see why it wouldn't still be eligible.

I hope you people didn't misunderstand me, by "so it's fine i guess" i did not mean that it should be okay to nominate a track from DKC2 but that i have no problem if it doesn't get to be nominated if someone who is involved with SotW a lot tells me that it's well known. (You don't have to convince the crap out of me on this one :D)

If "restricted" only means that any further nominations won't make it into the next week but will be added to the queue then i'd like to nominate the following:

Artist: Goteki
Game: TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (Game Rip)
Title: Mind The Gap "Subway"
Year: 2005
Source: ID3 Tags of the MP3 which i got from here
I'll just go ahead and upload it.

Bleh I seriously couldn't find the time to participate in SotW this week. I'll be sure to download the tracks and give them a listen. Here's hoping I'm able to post some comments or at least some points next/this week.